Teacher Profiles
Marina Locke, RMT, Senior Yoga Teacher (1000hr), CST, Doula
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in 1982, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her guided meditation and visualization. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (1000 hour) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she began teaching Hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2015 she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously she became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills and practice have taken her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
Marina worked 7 years in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia as a massage therapist for Canadian Mountain Holidays, often seeing 60 appointments/week.
She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie and many others. She completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) in 2001 and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies, and studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. She was Head of Faculty for Wellpark College from 2005-2007 and taught massage therapy there until 2011.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 Marina started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months at her own expense to help people cope with the earthquake trauma. Her home is now Adelaide, Australia after 20 years in rural Rangiora, New Zealand. She incorporated stress release exercises for trauma recovery into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires. Her continued studies include Myofascial, RAPID and refresher short courses online with professional organizations (ie. Cup, Scrape and Tape conference, Intentional Birth conferences). She has also attended intensive workshops with David Magee, Myk Hungerford, and Thomas Myers.
She is a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta, affiliate member of Massage New Zealand.
For more information about some of the courses Marina has attended, see www.injoyyogatherapy.com
Marina Locke, RMT, Senior Yoga Teacher (1000hr), CST, Doula
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in 1982, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her guided meditation and visualization. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (1000 hour) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she began teaching Hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2015 she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously she became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills and practice have taken her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
Marina worked 7 years in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia as a massage therapist for Canadian Mountain Holidays, often seeing 60 appointments/week.
She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie and many others. She completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) in 2001 and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies, and studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. She was Head of Faculty for Wellpark College from 2005-2007 and taught massage therapy there until 2011.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 Marina started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months at her own expense to help people cope with the earthquake trauma. Her home is now Adelaide, Australia after 20 years in rural Rangiora, New Zealand. She incorporated stress release exercises for trauma recovery into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires. Her continued studies include Myofascial, RAPID and refresher short courses online with professional organizations (ie. Cup, Scrape and Tape conference, Intentional Birth conferences). She has also attended intensive workshops with David Magee, Myk Hungerford, and Thomas Myers.
She is a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta, affiliate member of Massage New Zealand.
For more information about some of the courses Marina has attended, see www.injoyyogatherapy.com
Carly Schneider, RMT
A graduate from MacEwan University (RMT), Carly is also a Dance instructor and will soon study to be a doula.
She works as a RMT for MVMT Physio and Chiro, a multi discipline clinic in St. Albert
A graduate from MacEwan University (RMT), Carly is also a Dance instructor and will soon study to be a doula.
She works as a RMT for MVMT Physio and Chiro, a multi discipline clinic in St. Albert
Joanne Keiran International Yoga Teacher, Doula, Infant Massage Instructor, Nanny & Grandmother
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
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